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Heavy Metal Parking Lot: ´16 perfect minutes´

The scene was the parking lot of the Capitol Centre in Landover, Md. before a Judas Priest/Dokken double bill in the heyday of hair metal, and the piece that resulted is basically a series of interviews with wasted teenage tailgaters that is at once disturbing, revealing and hilarious.

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One minute she had the keys in her hand, using the fob’s button to pop the lock on her car parked in the drive. The next minute the keys were gone. Way gone. She tore the house apart and put it back together looking for the damn things, to no avail.

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Tthis hackneyed and wearisome melodrama that wastes a star turn from its lithe, lethal leading lady. She deserves better, and she’s not alone. It goes without saying that the viewer deserves better, too.

Depending on whose story you choose to believe or what aspects you choose to believe, Joyce McKinney was able to spirit Kirk Anderson to a “safe house,” where she handcuffed him to a bed and had sexual relations with him.